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International Visitors
June 2003 saw a number of visitors from overseas visit the observatory site. Firstly, we had Roger and Mina Adams
from the TIE Board of Directors inspect the facilities. An interesting afternoon was held demonstrating the equipment on
show and discussing the direction that the program is likely to take. Roger and Mina were in Australia for the International
Rotary Conference held in Brisbane.
Roger and Mina Adams with some NTQO staff
The next week saw us visited by Andrea, Jay and Robert from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), plus Alexander and
Willoughby (Andrea's family). The three from JPL were in Australia for a working group meeting on computational earth
sciences. Andrea also happens to be a colleague of TIE director Gil Clark, and took the opportunity to examine the
Australian arm of the international TIE network. A demonstration of the importance of having a variety of TIE sites was
shown by logging into the Mt Wilson 14" telescope and taking some images at 2pm local time (9pm Mt Wilson time). Likewise,
American students will be able to use our telescopes at the NTQO during their daylight hours. The session was met
with great enthusiasm.
The JPL crew and NTQO staff
M13 - Great Cluster in Hercules
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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
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